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LINDBERGH ... Was the 67th Man to Make A Non-Stop Flight Over the Atlantic Ocean”
When I printed this statement in one of my “Believe It or Not” pictures in the newspapers not long ago, I was surprised at the reaction: almost immediately I was besieged with telegrams, phone calls, and letters—about 3,000 of them. Practically all of the doubting ones thought that “Lindy” was the first to make a non-stop flight over the Atlantic Ocean; and the few who did remember (strange, how few they were) that Alcock and Brown flew over, could not imagine who the other 64 could be.
They forgot two dirigibles!
Sir John Alcock and Sir A. Whitton Brown made the first non-stop flight over the Atlantic in 1919. (Newfoundland to Ireland.)
Later, the same year, the English dirigible, R 34, with thirty-one men aboard, crossed from Scotland to America, and returned.
In 1924, the German ZR 3 (now the “Los Angeles”) flew from Friedrichshafen, Germany, to Lakehurst, New Jersey, with a crew of thirty-three men.
Lindbergh was the sixty-seventh.
NAPOLEON—LIKE MOSES—CROSSED THE RED SEA ON DRY LAND
Please accept Napoleon’s own word that he crossed the Red Sea “à pieds secs” (on dry foot). He says so in volume 1, page 2, of his Mémorial de St. Hélène.
The Miracle of Moses and the hosts of Israel passing over the Red Sea is a non-religious possibility. The point of crossing is near the town of Suez called Bahr es Kolzum (the Sea of Drowning)—Yam Suph in the Bible—and is only a mile wide and naturally shallow, due to sand bars.
The rise and fall of the tide is from five to seven feet. A strong wind blows northwest for nine months of the year, and often has a tremendous influence upon an ebb tide, causing it to vary three feet and more. (It is significant that both the Bible and Napoleon mention a strong prevailing wind.)
A combination of the above facts: wind, tide, sand bars and the narrowness of the Gulf of Suez would indicate that Napoleon told the truth. Besides, a number of Bible critics, both worldly and ecclesiastical, bear out his statement. I refer you to: Biblical Encyclopedia ... under Red Sea; Egypt, by Bishop Charles Seymour Robinson, page 85, volume 1, and many others.
I have seen the point of passing myself. It is now about the same distance in width, but has been dredged out in a channel to a depth of thirty-five feet.
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